Michael Houck

Megaphone

We create high-converting LinkedIn, X, and newsletter content for over 50 founders and send it viral with the help of over 400 creators with tens of millions of followers.

Founder

Founding Journey

Helping founders build, grow, and raise capital for their startups.

launch house

An early stage venture fund for companies building the New Silicon Valley. It began as a membership club built around IRL coliving residencies in LA, NYC, Tulum, Aspen, Miami, and Lisbon.

Co-Founder

Airbnb

Product Manager

Uber

Product Analytics, Uber Eats

TherapyNotes, LLC

Software Engineer

85,000+ founders read my free weekly newsletter. Follow me to learn about startups and venture capital.

I didn't know what a startup was until after college. I wasn't lucky with connections or mentors.

But within a few years my startup raised $23 million from a16z + other investors.

Along the way I:
· Cold emailed my way into an early role at Uber Eats
· Got laid off by Airbnb during COVID
· Built an audience of ~100K across LinkedIn and X
· Started a coliving residency for startup founders in Tulum
· Co-founded a venture fund and made over 50+ early stage investments (incl. Figure and Beehiiv)

More recently I've bootstrapped my personal holdco from $0 to $100K MRR in under 2 years. We help founders through content, connections, capital, and services:

· megaphonestudio.com → let my content agency build your newsletter or social media audience
· megaphone.network → partner with big creators in your niche

· join.foundingjourney.com → get my weekly playbooks and advice alongside 75k founders (for free)
· upgrade.foundingjourney.com → get ~100 fundraising case studies from founders I interviewed
· go.foundingjourney.com/fundraising → get connected with investors (including me)

I'm also building a new YouTube channel. Here's a recent video on the history of Silicon Valley: youtu.be/alUQxEldEMM

A weekly newsletter designed to help you build, grow, and raise capital for your startup.

Aleksandr Volodarsky

lemon.io

Lemon.io startups with vetted offshore developers.

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CEO & Founder

Hampton

Hampton is a highly-vetted peer community for founders and CEOs of fast-growing startups

Founding Member

Software Development, R&D outstaffing

We are an offshore provider of software development services in various areas for organizations worldwide.
Responsibilities:
- Business development on Israel and US markets
- Customer relations management

Business Development

Displify

Displify is Adsense for images. It is an instrument, that analyses website images and displays on them relevant advertisement with much better focus and no user abuse.
Responsibilities:
- Business development
- Operations management

Creator Capital Partners

Creator Capital Partners (CCP) focuses on early and growth stage investments in companies based in Eastern Europe whose growth is dependent on their development of online business. CCP is a hands-on investor that brings wealth of experience to help young high potential companies to grow their business and tap into opportunities not yet identified.
Responsibilities:
- Business development
- Partners network development 
- Project management for inside projects development
- Revenue optimization for company’s products

Business Development Manager

Prodigi

Media Consultant

UCT, Google Adwords Qualified Company

UCT is a search marketing agency. It is one of the biggest Google Adwords partners in CIS and gives services to over 1500 companies every month.
Responsibilities:
- Business development and customer relations management
- Sales planning and control of the sales department
- Sales and customer service for big accounts

The head of sales department

UCT is search marketing agency. It is one of the biggest Google Adwords partners in CIS and gives services to over 1500 companies every month.
Responsibilities: 
- Sales: cold calling, meetings, upsales
- Account management

Sales and customer service manager

SUN Event

Sun Event is a large event management agency, located in Kiev.
Responsibilities:
- Event program development
- Contractors management
- Event management

Event manager

Watch me grow lemon.io from $2.7m to $10m in 2021 via volodarik.com

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